How To Recruit The Best Talent For Your Business
Recruiting employees for your business is one of the biggest challenges you can face as a first-time entrepreneur or when your company puts on a growth spurt. No matter how big or small you are, your company is only as good as the people it employs. This is especially true in skilled disciplines and creative […]
DON’T BE AFRAID OF YOUR EMOTIONS IN BUSINESS – USE THEM TO POWER YOU ON!
One of the ways that I control my emotions in business is to redirect them and make them more productive. What do I mean by this? Well, if you’re feeling down about something, normally this would stop you in your tracks. It could lose you half a day, a day or even weeks of productivity […]
SHOULD YOU LEAD WITH THE HEART OR THE HEAD IN BUSINESS?
The head and the heart are two different things, both with very different agendas. Your heart can often influence decisions based on a fluffy, overly-optimistic outlook on everything, oblivious to all the negative stuff that could be going on. Your head, however, isn’t afraid to say it as it is. It doesn’t hesitate to argue […]
WHY YOU SHOULD GET A BUSINESS ACCOUNTANT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
I only have 3 words to say to you: Get. An. Accountant. As soon as humanly possible. Business accounting is straightforward at its very foundation: money in – money out = profit. Right? Kind of, but… no. This is why you need an expert business accountant to keep you on the right path. There are […]
HOW BUSINESS DEBT CAN CREEP UP ON YOU… IF YOU’RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION
‘Debt’ is an evil word in the business vocabulary and can kill your business in a heartbeat. Most businesses accumulate debt at some stage. I absolutely have lots of experience in dealing with business debt – so I thought it would be a good idea to write a blog post on it. This ‘experience’ includes […]
NOBODY WILL EVER UNDERSTAND YOU AS A BUSINESS OWNER – DEAL WITH IT!
Business owners, entrepreneurs, CEOs… we all have certain personality traits, and most people won’t ever understand or empathise with us. When it comes to running the business, we’re the evil ones. It’s a hard truth of growing a business: for the most part, your staff, your family and your loved ones just won’t get it. […]
YOU’RE FIRED: KNOWING WHEN IT’S TIME TO RIP THE PLASTER OFF
If you’re going to grow a business, you must be able to hire and fire people – and the timing needs to be absolutely spot on. In this post, I’m busting taboos and talking about firing. Yes, there will be times in your business’ future where you’ll have to pull the plug on someone’s time […]
WHY BUSINESS OWNERS SHOULD FIRE THEMSELVES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
In this blog post, I’m going to introduce you to the idea of firing yourself. What does this mean? Well, because you’re your own boss, you need to not only be aware of when to fire staff, but also yourself. Still not with me? Read on… When you start out in business, you are everything […]
THE MAGIC COMBINATION OF PATIENCE AND MOMENTUM IN BUSINESS
The moment you realise that growing a business is a very long-term event – i.e. when patience jumps in – is where the magic really starts to happen. I say this because without patience comes frustration, anxiety, ill health and worry. Worrying why things aren’t moving along as quickly as you expected causes the momentum […]
MOMENTUM IN BUSINESS: ONCE YOU START, DO NOT STOP
Momentum and compounding: two of my favourite words in business. They sum up a whole lot of what business is all about, which is not stopping until you are satisfied – which is, most likely, never! The boulder analogy This is my analogy: you’re pushing a very large and heavy boulder up a very steep […]